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We flew out to Salt Lake City, Utah, to get an exclusive look at the company behind some of the most advanced implantable neurotechnologies, Blackrock Neurotech. Brain implants are here, and they’re becoming more and more advanced every day. The Utah Array and Neuroport system allows for high-quality data recording and stimulation. It has the most in-subject research hours of any brain-computer interface on the market and has been a part of the most advanced BCIs since 2004, inspiring hope in persons with movement disorders. We also saw their newly announced Neuralace interface debuted in November 2022. Learn what it takes to work at a company at the forefront of brain-computer interface development.

Thanks to Blackrock Neurotech for sponsoring this video. The opinions expressed in this video are that of The BCI Guys and should be taken as such.

Blackrock Neurotech’s Website: https://blackrockneurotech.com/

By the way, Blackrock Neurotech is not affiliated with the BlackRock financial firm — this is a frequent question.

——–ABOUT US:——-

Harrison and Colin (The BCI Guys) are neurotech researchers and science communicators dedicated to creating a brain-controlled future! Neurotechnology and brain-computer interfaces are devices that allow users to control machines with their thoughts and interact with technology in new ways. This revolutionary technology will change life as we know it and soon will be as common as the touchscreen on your smartphone. Join us in learning about the brain-controlled future!

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Supersonic flight sounds great in theory, but in practice, it can lead to annoying hypersonic booms—the noise associated with shock waves created when an object travels through the air faster than the speed of sound. The booms can be as loud as an explosion or a thunderclap.

Current FAA rules ban supersonic flight over land due to noise pollution. NASA will use the experimental X-59 to gather data in the hopes of reducing the sonic boom to a barely-audible sonic thump heard on the ground. The supersonic plane will fly over populated regions of the United States, and data will be gathered from residents about the sound the aircraft produces.

If the X-59 succeeds in its mission, commercial air travel could get a lot quicker. Dinner in Paris, anyone?

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Sorry I’m not that active. My mom had a heart attack a little over a month ago and I care for her now. Plus last Thursday I went to the ER for overdosing accidentally on depakote which can be deadly. But check this out. In case of an emergency is this cool or what? Kind of expensive though.

If this summer you’re in the mood for some off-the-grid camping trips, this state-of-the-art self-sustainable luxury trailer is what you need. Designed from the ground up for off-grid camping, the trailer can also produce its own water, making it fully self-sufficient. This extremely sophisticated camper is the work of a California-based company called Living Vehicle which specializes in making self-sustainable luxury travel trailers. The 2023 model was recently introduced by Living Vehicle and it boasts a few industry firsts.

According to its makers, the off-grid camper is aimed at those who wish “to travel far away from campgrounds and overcrowded RV parks.” With a starting price of $340,000, the luxury camper is available in three versions: Core, Max, and Pro. Additionally, Living Vehicle offers a laundry list of options that can be added to the camper via the company’s online configurator.

The 29-foot-long innovative camper runs on solar power. It comes with 1,400W of solar capacity as standard, but Living Vehicle offers an option to further increase its capacity. The Pro version boosts the maximum solar capacity of 3,400W. The energy is stored in a lithium-ion battery pack with a capacity ranging from 14.4 kWh to 57.6 kWh depending on the trailer’s version, along with invertor power ranging from 5 kW to 20 kW. The company from Santa Barbara claims the stored solar energy can power the camper’s air conditioner overnight without any external power input.

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Join us for a conversation with Andrew Ng and Yann LeCun as they discuss the proposal of a 6-month moratorium on generative AI.

We will be taking questions during the event. Please submit your question or upvote others’ here:
https://app.sli.do/event/9yGgPaweRK9Cbo8wsqV6oq/live/questions.

Speakers.
Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yann-lecun/

Andrew Ng, Founder of DeepLearning. AI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewyng/

Let us know how we’re doing? We will be giving out discount codes for a selected number of people who fill out the survey:
https://forms.gle/ArNXCmkZc6YwwyXD7

Looking to connect with your peer learners, share projects, and swap advice? Join our AI community:

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What did scientists think about aging in 1931? That’s right. 1931. because that is the year the first biological textbook was published “The Science of Life”. I managed to get my hands on the first edition of this textbook. This was my face when i first received it. As you can see i was quite excited. And this textbook is made up of separate books. I bought book i last year and i read it. Having enjoyed it and discovered that it was part of this massive ensemble piece — well, i’ve read the first “book” — there are, if my roman numerals are correct, 9 books in total. And in this first book, penned “The Living Body”, the authors, most famously, H.G.Wells, Sir Julian Huxley and G.P.Wells, H.G’s son discusses the body as a machine and that.

“For the present it is enough to remember that all animals (including men) are combustion engines of an intricate and curious kind, which live by oxidising their food”

I bought first The Living Body and then discovered it was part of this massive ensemble piece and decided i needed to read it. Now, besides being surprised to find out that H.G.Wells wrote not just non-fiction, but biology non-fiction, i was also surprised to hear how both similar & dissimilar their views were back in 1931 compared to today and i wasnt sure if that was good or terrifying.

So, how did they think of human aging. Well, in the last chapter of this 1st book titled “The wearing out of the machine and its reproduction”, they discuss it.

Sheekey bookmarks — https://www.contrado.co.uk/stores/the-sheekey-science-show/c…rk-1999569

Find me on Twitter — https://twitter.com/EleanorSheekey.

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Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Pause Giant AI Experiments (open letter): https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments.
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Books and resources mentioned:
1. Life 3.0 (book): https://amzn.to/3UB9rXB
2. Meditations on Moloch (essay): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch.
3. Nuclear winter paper: https://nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0

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OUTLINE:
0:00 — Introduction.
1:56 — Intelligent alien civilizations.
14:20 — Life 3.0 and superintelligent AI
25:47 — Open letter to pause Giant AI Experiments.
50:54 — Maintaining control.
1:19:44 — Regulation.
1:30:34 — Job automation.
1:39:48 — Elon Musk.
2:01:31 — Open source.
2:08:01 — How AI may kill all humans.
2:18:32 — Consciousness.
2:27:54 — Nuclear winter.
2:38:21 — Questions for AGI

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If people are worried that Chat-GPT could be taking their jobs, they haven’t seen Auto-GPT yet.

Auto-GPT is an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT and others. It is based on the GPT-4 language model of OpenAI, the same LLM that powers the ChatGPT. But, as the name implies, “Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer,” a step further, but what exactly is it? Let us go through what Auto-GPT is and how it works.

What is Auto-GPT

Essentially, Auto-GPT is a chatbot. You ask it the questions it answers smartly. But, unlike ChatGPT and other GPT-based chatbots, which need a prompt every single time, Auto-GPT can automate the whole task, so you do not need to prompt it. Once given a task, Auto-GPT will figure out the steps on its own to reach the goal.

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